I only read the first page. I'll read the other pages later. I wanted to add my insight.
First of all, I have been diagnosed with bipolar. It was about summer of 2006 I believe. I have bipolar II I think though it still is bipolar. I don't get really 'crazy' so to speak.
Now, this idea that taking medicine and not having faith enough for healing...is a lie from satan! (Unless of course you have no faith at all...)
In the Bible it says if we have faith as small as a mustard seed we can say to this mountain 'move' and it will.
Now, I know God can do ALL things! Anything! Nothing is too big for him. But who am I to limit him in what he can use to get the job done?
God can take and give. He can heal by taking our loved one home to be with him.
I am not saying I know it all. The mind of God is a vast canyon and information and wonder. I will not know it all until I see him face to face.
God doesn't want us to live in the 'what if...' state that satan puts us in. Satan likes to have our focus to be on ANYTHING BUT God! And when that happens...remember what Jesus did. Use the Word of God against that enemy...and place him under your feet.
Take your medicine! Go to the doctor! Put your faith in God to use what he will for HIS GLORY! AND DO NOT listen to the voice of the stranger (satan)!
God Bless you!! Have a great day! Keep looking to Jesus...the Savior of all! You can't go wrong there!
I also have bipolar type II, GigglesforGod. I once had a "prophetess" tell me to get off of my medicine because, she said I wasn't bipolar, I don't act like it, she said. So I went off my medicine. Then I put all kinds of stress onto my family, I would go for days without sleeping, and the "prophetess", looked me straight in the eye and said, "You need to take your medicine."
Believe me, I have asked God for healing maybe 300 times. He chooses to leave me with this. It is not a burden, it is one more reason to love the Lord my God, it keeps me in tune with Him...I NEED Him, I WANT Him, He really is my Lord.
If I were...self-sufficient, strong (in the world's eyes), and wily...I would not need God. For me, this is something my mom suffered with, and I inherited the predisposition for it. It is just one of those things like having a need for prescription eyeglasses, having hypoglycemia, or acid-reflux. You know?
Both my brother and my sister inherited diabetes from our parents and grandparents. I did not. I was diagnosed bipolar type II (mild) after the birth of my last son; it was a very difficult pregnancy, I was older, and I actually think I'd been bipolar for a long time, but ran from it...ran so hard and fast. It was best when I admitted it and started taking the meds. All the counseling in the world was not helping me, and at times I felt so much hatred for myself that I read the bible constantly just trying to soothe my conscience and get some sort of peace.
I do not know what will happen now that I've admitted my syndrome here online. Perhaps I will be asked to step down as a moderator. It's okay. I just want people to know that you don't have to suffer alone. That you're not the only one to get depressed, to worry, to need Christian counseling, to need
medicine.
